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Jakarta International School Trials Bring More Recanted Confessions

Four Suspects Appeared in Court on Wednesday

In Indonesia, four janitors who admitted to raping a kindergarten student at the prestigious Jakarta International School have now recanted their confessions. The WSJ's Ramy Inocencio speaks with Richard Paddock in Jakarta about the U-turn.

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Richard C. Paddock

Aug. 27, 2014 9:46 a.m. ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia—In a second day of trials Wednesday, three janitors who admitted to gang-raping a child at the prestigious Jakarta International School recanted their confessions.

The three men, appearing in court for the first time since they were arrested in April, told the court that their signed statements were coerced.

"I and the other suspects have never committed the crime of sexual abuse or sodomy toward [the...